The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading: An Encyclopedia of Independent Living
By (Author) Nicole Faires
Skyhorse Publishing
Skyhorse Publishing
18th May 2011
United States
General
Non Fiction
Home and house maintenance
640
Paperback
608
Width 178mm, Height 254mm, Spine 23mm
1136g
Can you make your own bread (sans bread machine) Grow a garden all winter What can you use instead of toilet paper What if the power went out for a month What if the grocery store closed Can you make a solar oven Store food without electricity Raise a water buffalo Make fine linen from stinging nettle Make your own shampoo Deliver a baby Is it possible to be totally self-sufficient This massive, full-color book answers all these questions and thousands more and includes checklists, diagrams, and instructions on how to buy a sheep.
All of the information included meets these criteria: It is something that anyone can do, without special training. It can be done with relatively few supplies or with stuff you can make yourself. It has been tried and testedeither by the author, the military, doctors, or other homesteaders.
The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading is not a storybook or a cookbook. It is a practical guide with nitty-gritty details on everything a homesteader can do, step-by-step with hundreds of color illustrations and pen and ink sketches. You can do it! This book can help.
Nicole Faires is an adventurer, self-proclaimed eccentric, wife, and mother of three girls. She grew up in a semi-nomadic homeschooling family and spent her early years in rural Montana on a hobby farm where she raised chickens, grew her own food, learned to crochet, read out-of-print books by Masanobu Fukuoka, and dreamed of the Amish. She is the author of The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading and The Ultimate Guide to Permaculture and continues to seek new adventures and local food with her family in beautiful British Columbia.